{"id":15474,"date":"2010-05-03T06:34:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T10:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=15474"},"modified":"2010-05-03T06:34:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T10:34:52","slug":"short-selling-profits-disappear-as-bets-against-banks-backfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2010\/short-selling-profits-disappear-as-bets-against-banks-backfire.html","title":{"rendered":"Short Selling Profits Disappear as Bets Against Banks Backfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek &#8211; The biggest U.S. equity rally in seven decades is  wiping out profits for stock-market bears who have yet to capitulate on  bets against banks, retailers and casinos.<\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds that profit from falling shares have  seen 34 percent of their value evaporate since February 2009, according  to Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research Inc. Zions Bancorp., Sears Holdings  Corp. and Wynn Resorts Ltd., among the favorites of so- called  short-sellers, caused the biggest losses as their shares more than  tripled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-05-03\/short-selling-profits-disappear-as-bets-against-banks-backfire.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek &#8211; The biggest U.S. equity rally in seven decades is wiping out profits for stock-market bears who have yet to capitulate on bets against banks, retailers and casinos. Hedge funds that profit from falling shares have seen 34 percent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15475,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15474\/revisions\/15475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}